The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything read more

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo read more

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you read more

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".

We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain read more

We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we were sound as they,
But the prizes were not ours.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: read more

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.